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SK hynix is a South Korean company and one of the world's largest makers of memory chips, including DRAM and NAND flash for computing, mobile, and AI servers.
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SK hynix's Solidigm is adding a contract SSD site in Taiwan, home of the firms that ship over 90% of AI servers, with drives delivered from December. Using a contractor lets it sell into NAND prices eight times last year's without putting fab money on the island.
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SK hynix minority investors are preparing to ask the Korea Exchange whether duplicate-listing rules cover a Solidigm Nasdaq IPO worth up to $150 billion. Since the exchange does not directly review listings abroad, their leverage is the extra payout SK hynix has promised with third-quarter results.
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Samsung Electronics is expected to post 108.1 trillion won of third-quarter operating profit, nearly nine times last year's, in guidance due Thursday. With foundry, chip design and phones all losing money, that figure now moves with memory prices and the won.
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SK hynix accounted for 12 trillion won of the 20.3 trillion won that foreign investors sold net on the KOSPI between Sept. 1 and Oct. 2. With Samsung Electronics included, two memory makers carried about 85% of it, leaving little foreign selling for the rest of the market.
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Samsung and SK Hynix are committing about $518 billion to new Gwangju memory fabs, the largest line in South Korea's roughly $900 billion decade plan. Company balance sheets supply much of that capital, so the two chipmakers will set how fast the new supply actually arrives.
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SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won is selling 944 billion won of SK Inc. stock, cutting his personal stake to 15.5% from 17.9%. A price return swap on 400 billion won of it leaves him carrying that slice's gains and losses, so he has shed less SK exposure than the stake cut shows.
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Anthropic aims to start marketing its IPO by the week of Nov. 9, according to Bloomberg, with investors putting its value near $2 trillion. Teams building on Claude will soon be able to read the vendor's losses and spending plans in quarterly public filings.
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Four of five Korean 'patriotic' funds reviewed by Seoul Economic Daily returned 105% to 147% over the past year. Returns that close across governance, chip-growth and industrial-policy mandates point to a lift across the whole market more than to any one strategy.
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Anthropic could start marketing its IPO the week of Nov. 9, a month later than planned, at a value investors put at $1.8 trillion to $2 trillion. Companies that build on its models would then rely on a supplier whose losses and price are debated in public.
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Micron's fiscal fourth-quarter revenue reached $54.23 billion, up from $11.32 billion a year earlier, on demand for memory in AI data centers. Guidance of about $61.5 billion for the next quarter makes memory pricing a cost that teams building AI hardware should plan for through 2027.
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Samsung Electronics has finished buying back 53.8 million of its own shares, 100.96% of the plan it began in August. Its stock now goes into next week's preliminary third-quarter results with no company purchases in the market.
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Seoul will cut permit time for Hyundai's 4 trillion won Ulsan EV rebuild to 12 months from 40, about half the value of a 7.9 trillion won fast-track package. The listed project figures reach that total without the chip-fab contracting change SK hynix sought, a rule Seoul plans to change next year.
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KOSPI rose 1.95% to 6,971.35 on October 1 as Korea's September chip exports hit a record $60.3 billion, reversing a yield-driven early dip. The session shows chip news can beat US rate pressure for a day. How long it can keep doing so depends on how long the memory shortage lasts.
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Micron forecast $61.5 billion in quarterly revenue after sales rose 379% to $54.23 billion as AI buyers took every memory chip it could make. Anyone budgeting servers or laptops for next year has good reason to price memory at today's rates until new factories add supply.
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Micron's multiyear contracts now cover more than 35% of its projected revenue through 2030, up from about 25% a quarter earlier. Buyers outside those deals compete for memory that Micron, Samsung and SK hynix are assigning years ahead.
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Goldman Sachs expects the five biggest US hyperscalers to spend about $1.2 trillion on AI infrastructure in 2027, 50% more than in 2026. The forecast is $100 billion above consensus, and the bank lists power, labor and memory chips as the limits on building it.
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CTOs told Gergely Orosz that CPU spot pricing, once up to 90% below list, has nearly vanished as AI workloads absorb spare cloud capacity. Teams whose compute budgets assumed spot rates now have to plan for getting capacity at all, on top of paying more for it.
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Samsung has more than doubled its high-bandwidth memory share in a year, eating into SK Hynix's lead, Rest of World reports. For anyone buying AI capacity, the contest could affect how fast and how cheaply new clusters arrive.
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Korean regulators' 30 million won cash deposit rule cut daily turnover in 16 Samsung and SK hynix single-stock ETFs by about 92%, to 990 billion won. The drop has held, but in September retail's appetite for doubled bets moved to index inverse funds outside the rule's single-stock scope.
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A 25-page OTMP report names about 40 countries and specific industrial districts as transshipment routes. The follow-through will land on documentation, not duty rates.
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